Winners of the Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes

The Arthur Reidel Prize for Writing to Advance Anti-Racism

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Quentin Smith	“Questions About Appropriation”
2023	1st	Ololade Abdulai	“Portraits of Change”
2022	1st	Jerry Han	“Off the Rails”
2021	1st	Ololade Abdulai	“On Identifying Trauma”
2021	2nd	Syamantak Payra	“Equity and Equanimity”
2021	Honorable Mention	Sharon Lin	“Ghosts”

Boit Engineering Prize

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Eileen Zhang	“Effect of Posture on Tidal Volume in Human Breathing”
2024	2nd	Shreya Agarwal	“The Aerodynamics of a Solar Car: Comparing Simulations to the Real-world”
2024	3rd	Gillian Roeder	“The Effect of Initial Crank Angle on Bicycle Acceleration from Rest”
2023	1st	Carolina Warneryd	“Characterization and Modeling of the Human Mouth Space for the Informed Design of Intraoral Wearable Human-Computer Interfaces”
2023	2nd	Hannah Gazdus	“The Effects of Increasing Binder Concentration on the Fracture Force and Vibrancy of Watercolor Paint”
2022	1st	Aviva Intveld	“Microstructural Characterization and Measurement of Protein-Based Hydrogels Via Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy”
2022	2nd	Jeffrey Shen	“Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities on the Internet: A Layered Model”
2021	1st	Syamantak Payra	“Design, Mechanism, and Construction of a Portable Modular Space Lavatory (PMSL)”
2021	2nd	Emelie A. Eldracher, Hayley Popiel, and Joanna Kennedy	“Identifying Plastic Bags in Other Waste: A Comparison Between Human and Neural Net”
2021	3rd (tie)	Christopher Eschler, Alby Joseph, Spencer Toll, and Richard Osterude	“Increasing Specific Elastic Strain Energy in Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites”
2021	3rd (tie)	Natasha Stamler	“The Effect of Microwave Heating Duration on Marshmallow Temperature and Material Properties”
2020	1st	Heather Nelson	“Photographic Film Reticulation Due to Temperature Changes during Film Development”
2020	2nd	Anupama Phatak	“Effect of Leaf Storage Methods on Brewed Tea”
2020	Honorable Mention	Sharon Lin	“Spectre Exfiltration Challenge”
2019	1st	Amy Fang	“How Bake Time and Ingredient Ratios Affect Cookie Texture”
2019	2nd	Kristen Frombach	“Haugh Model and Modification”
2018	1st	Agnes Cameron	“Termite-inspired techniques for decentralised street planning”
2018	2nd	Annika E Rollock	“Attitude Rate Control for Recovery of a Quadcopter After a Partial Single Rotor Failure in Steady, Level Flight”
2018	Honorable Mention	Cathryn Hart	“Comparison and Improvement of Fed-Batch and Continuous Bioprocesses for the Production of Monoclonal Antibodies”
2017	1st Prize	Remi Mir	“Transferring Emotions”
2017	2nd	Elliot Owen	“An Accessible Alternative to Monolithic Flexures”
2017	Honorable Mention	Elan Ness-Cohn	“Regenerative Medicine: Toward the Clinic”
2016	1st	Eric Dahlseng	“Developing a Capacitor-based System for Permanent Magnet Magnetization”
2016	2nd	Marie Elimbi Moudio	“Optimization of Mixing of Two Air Flows in the Annular Region of a Cylindrical Swirl Combustor”
2015	1st	Julia Sun	“Inducing Multi-Lineage Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Single Bioreactor Systems”
2015	2nd	Gianmarco Suarez	“Progress towards optimization of a synthetic two-component photography system in Escherichia coli”
2014	1st	Ebaa Al-Obeidi
2014	2nd	Harrison Hunter	“ErdosFs”
2014	Honorable Mention	Ashley Smith
2012	Honorable Mention	Mary Zhang	“Use of Genetically Engineered Bacteria in the Fermentation of Hydrolysate Sugars for Butanol Production”
2011	1st (tie)	Maia Bageant	“Comparing Deflection Properties of Softball Bats”
2011	1st (tie)	Talal Al-Mulla	“A Long-Term Ecological Research Experiment to Test the Unintended Consequences of Cloud Brightening on the Hydrological Cycle”
2011	Honorable Mention	Eli Williams	“The J.P. Morgan Strategic Investment Advisory Group: An Organizational Analysis”
2010	1st	Tiffany K. Cheng	“Testing the Unintended Consequences of Lignin Reduction in Genetically Modified Trees on Trophic Interactions”
2010	2nd	Connie Chan	“Testing how the sulfur aerosols geoengineering scheme’s increase in diffuse light has a negative affect on global warming”
2010	1st	Clara Yuan	“Production of 2,3-butanediol in Escherichia coli”
2009	2nd	Eric Dow and Garrett Robinson	“A Wing-Sail Array for Tanker Applications”
2009	Honorable Mention	Katrina Westerhof	“Surface Modification of Quantum Dots for Tissue Targeting in Drug Delivery and Medical Imaging”
2007	1st	Jonathan M. Long	“A Programmable Traffic Light Controller”
2005	1st	Ragu Vijaykumar	“Microencapsulation of Mineral Oil with Gelatin-Acacia”
2005	2nd	Muyinatu Lediju	“Identifying Unlabeled Containers Using Sound Velocity Measurements”
2003	1st	Luxiou Chen	“Small Embedded Hardware”
2003	2nd	Aadel Chaudhuri and Ragunath Vijaykumar	“Frequency and Behaviour of Action Potentials in Response to a Long Duration Membrane Current in the Hodgkin-Huxley Model”
2003	Honorable Mention	Margaux Daly	“Verification of a Correlation Between Total Resistance to Heat Transfer and Flow Rate in a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger”
2002	1st	Samidh Chakrabarti	“Techniques for Speeding Web Access in the Developing World”
2002	2nd	Marion Jones	“Isolation and Sharing with Segments”
2002	Honorable Mention	Carlos Gomez-Uribe	“Soap Bubbles and Films”

Boit Manuscript (Drama)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Alayo Oloko	“Collateral”
2024	2nd	Jiwoo Park	“Last Night at the Observatory”
2024	3rd	Alice Trang Le	“Nina, Nina”
2022	1st	Alan Zhu	“Hold Me (But Not Too Close)”
2021	1st	Jordan Tappa	“G@M3R GRIL”
2021	2nd	Anupama Phatak	“Mortality Rate: Recalculating”
2021	Honorable Mention	Anisha Agarwal	“In Absentia”
2020	1st	Margaret Kosten	“Foregone Conclusion”
2020	2nd	Elijah Miller	“Reset”
2020	Honorable Mention	Mary Dahl	“Meltdown”
2020	Honorable Mention	Jordan Tappa	“G@M3R GRIL”
2018	1st	Alana Lidawer	“Ideal”
2018	2nd	Rachel Yang	“Tactless”
2018	Honorable Mention	Ayomide Fatunde	“Ants”
2014	1st	Natalia Guerrero	“Potential”
2014	2nd	Anna Waldo	“In Which We Are Bad At Dealing With Our Problems”
2014	Honorable Mention	George Bailey	“Srebrenica”
2013	1st	Neil Fitzgerald
2013	2nd	Johari Menelik
2013	Honorable Mention	Jaclyn Wilson
2012	1st	Jessica Fujimori	“Taj’s Prayer”
2012	2nd	Andi Wang	“Triple”
2012	Honorable Mention	Anna Waldo	“Box”
2011	1st	Anna Waldman-Brown	“Bankisaga: An Economic Tragicomedy”
2010	1st	Long Lam	“For Overseas Basis”
2010	2nd	Anna Waldman-Brown	“Seals Can’t Dance”
2009	1st	Anneke Schwob	“Waiting Room”
2009	2nd	Long Lam	“Old Friend(s)”
2009	Honorable Mention	Jonathan Sue-Ho	“Pirate vs Ninja”
2008	1st	Allison Berke	“Disatisfaction”
2008	2nd	Mariam Shaikh	“The Man in the Mirror”
2008	Honorable Mention	Sarah Dupuis-Kornreich	“Public Relations”
2007	1st	Mei-Hsin Cheng	“Nerds and the City”
2006	1st	Theresa Eugenio	“Inconstant”
2004	1st	Nancy Keuss
2004	2nd	Amy Fisher
2003	1st	Daniel Katz	“Three Struggles”
2003	2nd	Kaia Dekker	“Enchantment”
2003	Honorable Mention	Max Goldman	“Surface of the Water”

Boit Manuscript Prize (Essay)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Cindy Xie	The Politics and Poetics of Asian American Mental Health
2024	2nd	Quentin Smith	Does Black Royalty Contribute to Black Community Growth?
2024	3rd	Jayashabari Shankar	The Power of Words
2023	1st	Alan Zhu	“Although Eventually You End up Becoming Yourself”
2022	1st	Catherine Ji	“Boise’s Chinatown in Memory and Its Narrators”
2020	1st	Steven Truong	“How I Got into Medical School”
2019	1st	Jessica Adams	“After the Storm”
2018	1st (tie)	Danielle Finney	“Awokening”
2018	1st (tie)	Kate Weishaar	“A Reflection Upon My Own Gender-Racial-Ethnic Identity Development”
2018	2nd	Janice Ong	“Made in His image: The influence of personal motivation in the fostering of Carolingian saints’ cults by Charlemagne’s Einhard and Hincmar of Reims”
2018	Honorable Mention	Patricia Gao	“From Here to Home”
2018	Honorable Mention	Katherine Young	“Interconnection and Recollection in Schubert’s Cello Quintet”
2017	1st	Vincent Anioke	“Reverse Culture Shock”
2017	2nd	Darian Bhathena	“Abnormality”
2017	3rd	Steven Truong	“Pretty”
2016	1st	Daniel Richman	“Making Tracks”
2015	1st	Daniel Parker	“Unity and Disunity in Beethoven’s Great Fugue”
2015	2nd	Angela Leong	“Ping”
2014	1st	Natasha Balwit	“The House on Hidden Hills”
2011	1st	Shawn Tsosie	“Desert Discursions”
2011	Honorable Mention	Salman Aldukheil	“To Be Determined”
2010	1st	Abdul Munir	“In Quest of Identity”
2010	Honorable Mention	Mark Reed	“Who Wrote The Federalist Papers?”
2009	1st (tie)	Jason E. Douglas	“Who Am I: Essays in Quest of Identity”
2009	1st (tie)	Marguerite Siboni	“Inheritance”
2008	Honorable Mention	Sarah Dupuis-Kornreich	“Turn On, Turn Up: Three Essays on Pop Culture”
2008	Honorable Mention	Sharon Cochenour	“From There to Here”
2007	1st	Han Zhu	“Memories of a Chinese-American”
2007	2nd	Jiao Wang	“Transplanted: Eastern Sprout, Western Tree”
2006	1st	Nancy Hua	“Fleeting Moments in a Girl’s Life”
2005	1st	Anna Wexler	“(Ad)Ventures: Essays on Travel”
2005	2nd	Matthew R. Burns	“More Than Words: A Biography of Daniel Francis Burns”
2005	Honorable Mention	Jiji Gu	“Closer: Natural Selection and the Invisible Hand”
2004	2nd	Rachel Dillon and Alex Khripin
2003	1st (tie)	Jolene Singh	“Tales of Toast and Tea”
2003	1st (tie)	Jeffrey D. LeBlanc	“A Journey Through China”
2003	2nd	Margaret Shyr	“Don’t Throw Away Face”
2003	Honorable Mention	Marissa Raymond	“An Exercise in Fortitude“Don’t Throw Away Face”
2002	2nd (tie)	Jenny Lin	“Life Lessons”
2002	2nd (tie)	Tamam Mango	“Z: Salvucci’s Charles River Crossing”

Boit Manuscript Prize (Fiction)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Amber Velez	The Architect and the Poisoner (Chapters 4-5)
2024	2nd	Asher Wong	“Deep Calls to Deep”
2023	1st	Amber Velez	“The Architect and the Poisoner”
2023	2nd	Siyi Lin	“Judgment Day”
2023	3rd	Jyotsna Nair	“Push”
2022	1st	Nailah Smith	“The Devil in Him”
2022	2nd	Tiffany Chen	“Well-Versed”
2022	3rd	Aayush Gupta	“Pond”
2021	1st	Rona Wang	“Char Literally”
2021	2nd	Nailah Smith	“Shadows and Light”
2021	Honorable Mention	Quinn Brodsky	“Giantess”
2020	1st	Wendy Trattner	“A Million Shards of Glass”
2020	2nd	Rona Wang	“Hello World”
2020	Honorable Mention	Kathryn Mohr	“Atavism”
2019	1st (tie)	Rona Wang	“Idols”
2019	1st (tie)	Jocelyn Shen	“Time Zone”
2019	2nd	Daniel Guberek	“Paths That Can’t Be Traced”
2019	Honorable Mention	Sam Pauley	“A Fool’s Errand”
2018	1st	Maya Kaul	“Untethered”
2018	2nd	Virginia Rosenberger	“The Three Instances of Jack Yung”
2018	Honorable Mention	Theresa Machemer	“Among the Marigold Ghosts”
2017	1st	Vincent Anioke	“The Walk”
2017	2nd	Jessica Adams	“Flower Thieves”
2017	Honorable Mention	Rona Wang	“Girlhood”
2016	1st	M. Abrams	“Bad Dreams”
2016	2nd	Michael Winer	“M.A.D.N.E.S.S.”
2016	Honorable Mention	Joseph Schuman	“Bit by Bit”
2015	1st	Vincent Anioke	“New Light”
2015	2nd	Natasha Balwit	“Big Dog”
2015	Honorable Mention	M. Abrams	“Avelina”
2014	Honorable Mention	Lourdes Bobbio
2013	1st	Dana Reback
2013	2nd	Holden Lee
2012	1st	Rachel Martin	“Present, Endured”
2012	2nd	Dennis Wilson	“La Vita Evita”
2012	Honorable Mention	Aimee Harrison	“Underneath”
2011	1st	Holden Lee	“A Taste of Passion”
2010	1st	Gillian Conahan	“Creeping Iron”
2009	1st	Lindsay Johnson	“(There Is) More Than the End”
2009	2nd	Minah Shahbaz	“Limited Focus”
2009	Honorable Mention	Anna Waldman-Brown	“The Curious Travels of Mira’s Elder Brother”
2008	1st	Michael Obilade	“Roseblood”
2008	2nd	Samantha Weiss	“Viastrin Dust”
2008	Honorable Mention	Gillian Conahan	“Codominion”
2007	1st	Minah Shahbaz	“Of Hope and Beyond”
2007	2nd	Farah Ghniem	“Majd”
2007	Honorable Mention	Michael Obilade	“Soup, City, Well, Salt”
2006	1st	Michael Obilade	“Street Kids and Other Stories”
2006	2nd	Kaya Shah	“Mangoes Under the Night Sky: A Collection of Short Stories”
2006	Honorable Mention	Madeleine Sheldon-Dante	“Code Bitch”
2005	1st	Adora Asala	“Omi” (novella in progress)
2005	2nd	Caroline Fu	“Truth in Chile Verde and Almond M&Ms, and other short stories”
2005	Honorable Mention	Grace Lin	“Daughters and Sons: A Collection”
2004	1st	Arthur Musah
2004	2nd	Jean Young Choi
2004	Honorable Mention	Eun J. Lee
2002	2nd	Kelly Clancy	“Sylva”
2002	Honorable Mention	Blake Stacey	“Suspended Fourth”

Boit Manuscript Prize (Poetry)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Cindy Xie	“Translocations”
2024	2nd	Fatima Nasir Abbasi	“hence the running began”
2024	3rd	Amber Velez	“far over forests”
2024	4th	Kaivalya Hariharan	“Earthshine”
2023	1st	Yuyuan Luo	“If You Remember Nothing Else”
2023	2nd	M. Geogdzhayeva	“The Intention of Memory”
2023	3rd (tie)	Carolina Warneryd	“Behold, Fruit Sandwich”
2023	3rd (tie)	Amber Velez	“In Summer the Sun Sets at Midnight”
2022	1st (tie)	Sagnik Anupam	“Corollaries”
2022	1st (tie)	Catherine Ji	“pillars of lower heavens”
2022	2nd	Avery Nguyen	“Squares”
2022	3rd	Alan Zhu	“and then we all fell down again”
2021	1st	Patricia Gao	“Breakfast Is Over”
2021	2nd	Nailah Smith	“Things the World Will Never Know”
2021	3rd (tie)	Ololade Abdulai	“A Cracked Mirror”
2021	3rd (tie)	McKenzie Sampson	“In Transit”
2020	1st	Ivy Li	“Keeping Still in a Moving Portrait”
2020	2nd	Sophia Diggs-Galligan	“My Own Map”
2020	Honorable Mention	Hanna Kherzai	“Leaving and Passing By”
2020	Honorable Mention	Rona Wang	“I hope this email finds you well”
2019	1st	Rona Wang	“affirmative reaction”
2019	2nd	Sophia E Diggs-Galligan	“Other People”
2019	3rd	Ayse Güvenilir	“Where I Come From”
2019	Honorable Mention	Olivia (Liv) Koslow	“The Eye Behind Itself”
2018	1st	Elise Bickford	“Undated (excerpts)”
2018	2nd (tie)	Hanna Kherzai	“Brightest Inside”
2018	2nd (tie)	Rona Wang	“Wu Daozi Dreaming”
2018	Honorable Mention	Max Evans	“Find My Way Home”
2018	Honorable Mention	Neena Dugar	“Coffee Spoons”
2017	1st (tie)	Gailin Pease	“Make This Body Mine”
2017	1st (tie)	Elise Bickford	“Social Theory and Practice”
2017	2nd	Rona Wang	“girl, continued”
2017	Honorable Mention	Shelby Pefley	“Lament for my Mother”
2017	Honorable Mention	Allie Hexley	“Too Foreign for Here”
2016	1st	Patrick Wahl	“The Queen of Spain”
2016	2nd (tie)	Valentina Chamorro	“Run by Bird: Translation of Ewa Chrusciel’s Contraband of Hoopoe”
2016	2nd (tie)	Sam Fomon	“standard memorandum”
2015	1st (tie)	Vivian Tran	“Introverted Intersections”
2015	1st (tie)	Alexandriyia Emonds	“Paracme”
2015	2nd	Valentina Chamorro	“Fabrications”
2015	3rd (tie)	Nicolas Brown	“lore-a, on the tangibles”
2015	3rd (tie)	Herbert Mehnert	“Poems for Sad Robots”
2014	1st	Alexandriya M.X. Emonds	Excerpts from “of Petrichor and Priorities”
2013	1st	Alexandriya Emonds
2013	2nd	Katy Gero
2013	3rd	Nikita Consul
2012	1st	Aimee Harrison	Excerpts from “The Id Kids”
2012	2nd	Irina Kholodenko	“To spill black chalk”
2012	Honorable Mention	Christine Yu	“Odious and Amorous”
2011	1st (tie)	Aimee Harrison	“Stumbling Through”
2011	1st (tie)	Sarah Whiteside	“Coal Dust: A Collection of Poems From a Senior Year”
2011	Honorable Mention	Jia Zhu	“Experiments”
2010	1st	Renee Reder	“My Window on Main Street”
2009	1st	Renee Reder	“La Roue de Paris”
2009	2nd	Seohyung Kim	“The Build-up: Writing on the Margins”
2009	Honorable Mention	Sarah Campbell Proehi	“Men in My Life, As of Late”
2008	1st	Zachary Smith	“Waiting For My Socks to Stink: Walking and Working Poems”
2008	2nd	Renee Reder	“Senses-Spirit”
2007	1st	Dan Levine	“Arena”
2007	2nd	Lisa Wang	“The Persistence of Memory”
2007	Honorable Mention	Gillian Conahan	“Epic of the Tiger Empress”
2006	1st	Jessica Young	“Sundays by the Wall of Isfahan Adams and Sister Schuller: A Fantasy (for the Thanksgiving of 2004) which shall remain Untitled”
2006	2nd	Emily Levesque	“Cadenza – Improvisations on Beautiful Scenes”
2004	1st	Aaron Parness
2004	2nd	Arthur Musah
2004	Honorable Mention	Amanda K. Sorenson
2003	1st	Arthus Musah	“The Orange Sun Captured Inside the Mango”
2002	1st	Moana Minton	“Catch”

DeWitt-Wallace Prize for Writing for the Public

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Christina Kim	“A New Protein Emerges as a Promising Target for Male Contraception”
2023	1st	Hillary Diane Andales	“The Grand (and Possibly Galactic) Story of Life”
2023	2nd	Elisa Tianyue Xia	“The Future of Data Storage: DNA”
2022	1st	Ian Rosado	“Keeping your Feet on the Ground: Smart Floor Technology”
2022	2nd	Uzuki Horo	“Brain-Computer Interface Developed by Kernel and Its Ethical Concerns”
2022	3rd	Sharon Jiang	“A Primary Care Physician’s Perspective on Addressing Healthcare Inequities”
2021	1st	Isabelle Yen	“Why We See Colors Differently”
2021	2nd	McKenzie Sampson	“Seeing Is Believing”
2021	Honorable Mention	Sarah Knopf	“WaterBears”
2020	1st	Victor Luo	“How Ocean Acidification was Implicated in Causing Coral Decline”
2020	2nd	Fatima Gunter-Rahman	“The Immorality Associated with Belonging” Honorable Mention: Leah Yost, “Will BEAR Become Bull?”
2019	1st	Mimi Wahid	“Urban Forestry”
2019	2nd	Leah Yost	“Unimaginable Magnitude”
2019	Honorable Mention	Joe Faraguna	“We Are All Slime Molds at Heart”
2017	1st	Theresa Machemer	“SENSEable City Lab Is Rethinking Urban Planning from the Underground Up”
2017	2nd	Francesca Schembri	“How Can She Help You?”
2017	Honorable Mention	Steven Truong	“When Going to the Bathroom Becomes Scary”
2016	1st	Elizabeth Li	“The Unexpected Control Behind Uncontrolled Growth”
2016	2nd	Emily Sheng	“Is it Worth the Wait?”
2015	1st	Hannah Hailan Pang	“A Breath of Fresh Air”
2015	2nd	Gailin Pease	“Passion and Physics: Rai Weiss and the founding of LIGO”
2014	1st	Zachary Wener-Fligner	“Getting the Timing Right”
2014	2nd	Dalia Walzer	“Our Guts, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Emerging Evidence for a Human-Microbiota Symbiosis”
2014	Honorable Mention	Minyi Lee
2013	1st	Anna Ho
2013	2nd	Sam Shames
2013	3rd	Rachel Ellison
2012	1st	Rena Katz	“Rethinking Me”
2012	2nd	Allison Hamilos	“Making Change Profitable”
2011	1st	Diana LaScala-Gruenewald	“A Call for Action”
2011	2nd	Rosemary M. Sugrue	“Tale of the Florida Everglades, Politics, and Sour Sugar”
2011	Honorable Mention	Sean Faulk	“The Fountain”
2010	1st	Diana LaScala	“Conquering Compulsion”
2010	Honorable Mention	Sebastian Armiyaw Nasamu	“The Theory of Probability – A Game of Chance!”
2009	1st (tie)	Matthew Meisner	“Pesticides: An American Tragedy”
2009	1st (tie)	Fangfei Shen	“The Biggest of the Particle Colliders – But the Baddest?”
2009	2nd	Anneke Schwob	“Engineering a Save”
2009	Honorable Mention	Chris Kennedy	“A Journey Through Darkness”
2008	1st	Lisa Song	“The Unteneable City”
2008	2nd	Natania Antler	“Eyes Upward”
2008	Honorable Mention	Scott Berdahl	“An Emergent New Perspective”
2008	Honorable Mention	Elizabeth Finn	“Oh, Deer!”
2007	1st	Derrick S. Boone, Jr.	“Quanta from Heaven”
2007	2nd	Anna Wexler	“From Neurons to Neighborhoods: Profile of a Salesman”
2006	1st	Uta Maeda	“Chasing Away Monsters: A Pill to Forget Painful Memories”
2005	1st	Uta Maeda	“A Pill a Day Keeps Forgetfulness Away”
2005	2nd	Benjamin Lee	“Discovering Newton”
2005	Honorable Mention	Yin Ren	“Designer Babies: Marvel or Mistake?”
2004	1st	Christine E. Casas
2004	2nd	Ingrid Lawhorn
2004	Honorable Mention	Jolene Singh
2003	1st	Nnennia Ejebe	“As Prescribed on TV”
2003	2nd	Marissa Raymond	“Misconceptions of the Mexican American Family: A Case of the Misuse of Cultural Competency”
2002	1st (tie)	Samidh Chakrabarti	“X-Ray Vision: The Mirrors of the Chandra Telescope”
2002	1st (tie)	Winnie Yang	“How I See the World”
2002	Honorable Mention	Elizabeth Rouse	“Computer Vision: Not Just a Summer Project”

Ellen King Prize for First-Year Writing

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Jessica Kim	“This Unsurmountable World”
2024	2nd	Fiona Lu	“Fault Lines”
2024	3rd	Susan Hong	“Goose”
2023	1st	Cristine Chen	“Life is Precious (Nuchi du Takara)”
2023	2nd	Nia Felton	“Flash Before My Eyes”
2023	3rd	Gozel Dovranova	“My Journey with Russian: Hate to Love Story”
2022	1st	Audrey Lee	“Division and Unification”
2022	2nd	Fatima Nasir Abbasi	“aftermaths”
2022	3rd	Alice Le	“Vandalizing Memory Lane, or Springtime Musings in Four Chapters”
2021	1st	Diana Degnan	“Representational Reform: On Systemic Underrepresentation in the United States and the Need for Legislative Reform”
2021	2nd	Sagnik Anupam	“Dawn and Other Poems”
2021	3rd	Cindy Xie	“Poetry Collection: Family Instruments”
2020	1st	Victoria Dzieciol	“Missed Connections”
2020	2nd	Aviva Intveld	“Keefman/Leefman”
2020	Honorable Mention	Vainavi Mukkamala	“When the Jasmine Blooms”
2019	1st	Ruby Kharod	“Unprepared”
2019	2nd	Nicole Munne	“March 14th”
2018	Honorable Mention	Patricia Gao	“On Infinity”
2017	1st	Rona Wang	“Girl in the Rice Paddies”
2017	2nd	Rona Wang	“Fortune’s Fool”
2017	Honorable Mention	Kristen Overly	“Detour”
2016	1st	Meia Alsup	“Family Trees”
2015	1st (tie)	Trang Luu	“How to tell the Color of the Sky”
2015	1st (tie)	Lordique Fok	“Sophia”
2015	2nd	Gailin Pease	“Theories”
2014	1st	Remi Mir
2013	1st	Kapaya Katongo
2013	2nd	Lena Yang
2013	Honorable Mention	Jorrie Brettin
2012	1st	Shilpa Agrawal	“Riverside Park”
2012	2nd	Jonathan Martin Matthews	“Padre Billini”
2012	Honorable Mention	Paelle Powell	“Unplanned”
2011	1st	Emma Gargus	“Experiences with Antiquity”
2011	2nd	Deena Wang	“Maiden, Mother, Monster”
2011	Honorable Mention	Xunjie Li	“1927”
2010	1st	Sahar Hakim-Hashem	“The Element That Made and Maimed Me”
2010	2nd	Curtis Clemens	“The Workbench”
2010	Honorable Mention	Katherine Luo	“A Lesson in Social Graces”
2009	1st	Kelechi Nwosu	“Zero Beach”
2009	2nd	Aimee Harrison	“Chaos and Control”
2009	Honorable Mention	Jessica Lin	“Third Eye”
2008	1st	Emma Rosen	“Running on Empty”
2008	2nd	Adrianna L. Tam	“The Pursuit of Happiness”
2008	Honorable Mention	Irina Kholodenko	“Four Poems”
2007	1st	Marguerite Siboni	“Relatively Old”
2007	2nd	Sarah Dupuis-Kornreich	“L’amour C’est Comme Une Cigarette”
2006	1st	Rebecca Freund	“On Tackling”
2006	2nd	Chelsea Grimm	“Effectiveness of Mausy Comix”
2006	Honorable Mention	Robert A. Moffatt	“The Old Wheatie”
2005	2nd (tie)	Mary-Irene Lang	“At a Desk”
2005	2nd (tie)	Emilie “Jaime” T. Heffernan	“The One Beneath”
2005	Honorable Mention	Nivair H. Gabriel	“Confirmation of Faith”
2004	1st	Theresa Eugenio
2004	2nd	Anicham Kumarasamy
2004	Honorable Mention	Scott Ostler
2003	1st	Kaya Shah	“Monkeys Upstairs”
2003	2nd	Alma E. Rico	“AmeXican”
2003	Honorable Mention	Brian Goodness	“Behind the Beauty”
2003	Honorable Mention	Ingrid E.B. Lawhorn	“The Women’s Room”
2003	1st	Jolene Singh	“My Grandmother’s Tears”
2003	2nd	Anna Kuperstein	“Politics and the Misuse of Religion”
2003	Honorable Mention	Flora Amwayi	“Tightening the Knot”
2003	Honorable Mention	Stephen Lee	“The Growing Impersonality of Communication”

Enterprise Poets Prize for Imagining a Future

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Amber Velez	“After Dusk”
2023	1st	Hillary Diane Andales	“Inside the Infodemic: An Epidemiological Study of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories”
2023	2nd	Amber Velez	“All the World’s Sunlight”
2022	1st	Kwan Queenie Li	“Insomniac/Amnesiac”
2022	2nd	Alicia Guo	“Anatomy of the Collective”
2021	1st	Kwan Queenie Li	“Worlds That They Edge”
2021	2nd (tie)	Anna Waldman-Brown	“Maximillian’s All-American Apocalypse”
2021	2nd (tie)	Indrayud Mandal	“Let’s Play”
2020	1st	Yuping Hsu	“In Between Empathy and Wonder Lies the Contamination that Makes Us Human”
2020	2nd (tie)	Nancy Valladares	“A Dedicated Mechanism for Forgetting (Master Letters)”
2020	2nd (tie)	Rona Wang	“Imitation Game”
2019	1st	Jessica Adams	“If Jesus Had an Instagram”
2019	2nd (tie)	Luíza Bastos Lages	“Fictional Landscapes”
2019	2nd (tie)	Sachin Bhagchandani	“Simulated Reality Machine”
2018	1st	Rona Wang	“The Seas Between Us”
2018	2nd	Sunayana Rane	“The Sound of 1984: Protecting Artistic Creativity in a Predictive World”
2017	1st	Meicen Sun	“After Power”
2017	2nd	Devany West	“Worms”
2016	1st (tie)	Elise Bickford	“Specter: a future dialogue”
2016	1st (tie)	Lochie Ferrier	“Electric Airports”
2015	1st	Mei Zuo	“Propinquity in Future Communities”
2015	2nd	Natasha Balwit	“Tunnels”
2014	1st	David Christoff	“The System: Football for Sale”
2014	2nd	Dennis Wilson	“Signal the Noise”
2013	1st	Justin Chen
2013	2nd (tie)	Samantha Fomon
2013	2nd (tie)	Alexandriya Emonds
2012	1st	Anna Waldo	“Machine Vision”
2012	2nd	Molly Kozminsky	“Everyone”
2011	1st	Laila Wahedi	“The Web”
2011	2nd	Anna Waldman-Brown	“The Birthday Present”
2010	1st	Anna Waldman-Brown	“A Madness Most Discreet”
2010	2nd	Anthony Farrell	“Loading Screen”
2009	1st	Tony Hyun Kim and Nevada Sanchez	“Video Acquisition Multi-touch Controller”
2009	2nd	Anna Waldman Brown	“Punctuality”
2007	1st	Nancy Hua	“People You Never Meet Again”
2007	2nd	Gillian Conahan	“Sky Dreams”

King Prize for Science Fiction Writing

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Amber Velez	“Another Taste This Winter”
2024	2nd	Fiona Lu	“Stars”
2024	3rd	Alayo Oloko	“Countertops”
2023	1st (tie)	Summer Hoss	“Entropy Bends at Mach 10”
2023	1st (tie)	Hannah Gazdus	“Sneaking for Songs (and a Bit of Thievery, Too)”
2023	2nd	Amber Velez	“The Poisoner”
2023	3rd	Michael Teodros	“Law and Kaos”
2022	1st (tie)	Hannah Gazdus	“That Must Have Been One Killer Croissant”
2022	1st (tie)	Amber Velez	“At the Crossroads”
2022	2nd	Leah Yost	“Frozen”
2022	3rd	Zawad Chowdhury	“Star Child​”
2021	1st	Sarah Knopf	“Human”
2021	2nd (tie)	Ether Bezugla	“The Formation of Tumbleweed”
2021	2nd (tie)	Sophia Cohen	“Critical Mass”
2021	3rd	Anupama Phatak	“Rising Tides”
2020	1st (tie)	Linyue Fan	“When Golden Teardrops Fall”
2020	1st (tie)	Leah Yost	“Have Mercy”
2020	2nd	Ivy Li	“I, Anonymous”
2020	3rd (tie)	Rona Wang	“Unwrapped”
2020	3rd (tie)	Michelle Xu	“Hunger”
2019	1st	Steven Truong	“The Little Sparrow”
2019	2nd	Daniel Guberek	“Recreation at a Library”
2019	Honorable Mention	Sam Ingersoll	“The Fish Tells You to Wander”
2018	1st (tie)	Elliot Owen	“His Lord’s Finest Telescope Emporium”
2018	1st (tie)	Synthia Odu	“The South Wall”
2018	2nd	Cathryn Hart	“Paradoxical Sleep”
2018	Honorable Mention	Steven Truong	“Mask Off”
2017	1st	Melanie Abrams	“Strong Feeling”
2017	2nd	Gailin Pease	“Touch”
2016	1st	Ada Taylor	“Her Electric Sleep”
2016	2nd	Marissa Stephens	“The Abyss”
2016	3rd	Alice Wu	“Memory Cell”
2015	1st	Andrea Kriz	“Fear”
2015	2nd	Vincent Anioke	“Will of the Puppets”
2015	3rd	M. Abrams	“Last Matinee at the Marionette Circus”
2014	1st	Shannon Kao
2014	2nd	Michael Cheung
2014	Honorable Mention	Sheila Xu
2013	1st	Shannon Kao
2013	2nd	Dana Reback
2013	3rd	Alexandra Sailsman
2012	1st (tie)	Aimee Harrison	“Letter of Resignation”
2012	1st (tie)	Hakyung Shin	“The Piano Player”
2011	1st	Aimee Harrison	“Animals of Humanity”
2011	2nd	Emilio T. Jasso	“Aida”
2011	Honorable Mention	Laila Wahedi	“The Prodigy”
2009	1st	Gillian Conohan	“Shroud of Sand”
2009	2nd	Susan Shepherd	“First Contact”
2009	Honorable Mention	Natania Antler	“Heavy, Man”
2008	1st	Samantha Weiss	“Creator’s Café”
2008	2nd	Dan Levine	“The Expense of Spirit”
2008	Honorable Mention	Gillian Conahan	“No One Needs to Know”
2007	1st	Gillian Conahan	“Kimi”
2007	2nd	Zachary Wissner-Gross	“The Modern League”
2007	Honorable Mention	Madeleine Sheldon-Dante	“The Birds, the Bees, and the Breyers”
2006	1st	Jocelyn Rodal	“Hiding Blind”
2006	2nd	Zachary Smith	“Nothing More”
2006	Honorable Mention	Margaret Gentile	“Not By Design”
2005	1st	Madeliene Sheldon-Dante	“Astep”
2005	2nd	Elizabeth Zellner	“My Boyfriend’s Back…”
2005	Honorable Mention	Christopher Walsh	“Deputy”
2004	1st	Scott Berdahl
2004	2nd	Nancy Hua
2004	Honorable Mention	James Skelley
2003	1st	Wendy Cook	“How to Become a Galaxy Class Poker Professional”
2003	2nd	Burhanuddin A. Baki	“Heaven, Hell, and Love: A Parable”
2003	Honorable Mention	Alison Klesman	“Beta”
2002	1st	Alison Klesman	“Akujunkan”
2002	2nd	Jovn Hsu	“Rodney”
2002	Honorable Mention	Kris Schnee	“Blue Prophet and Out of the Blue”
2002	Honorable Mention	Blake Stacey	“Papyrus Fragment 497728, Newly Translated”

Obermayer Prize for Writing on the History of Innovation (Undergraduates)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2022	1st	Ololade Abdulai	“Finding Your Fulcrum in an Innovative World”
2021	1st	Eliza Khokhar	“Thalidomide: The Powerful Catalyst that Shaped the FDA’s Role in the Modern Age”
2021	2nd	Isabelle Yen	“A Short History of Carbon Dating”
2020	1st	Ivy Li	“Visions and Revisions of Tomorrow’s Cities”
2020	Honorable Mention	Isabelle Yen	“Dinner in Five Minutes”
2019	1st	Yiwei Zhu	“Evaluating South East Asian Souvenirs”
2019	Honorable Mention	Steven Truong	“The Chronology of Horology”
2019	Honorable Mention	Jessica Adams	“Beyond Objectivity”
2017	1st	Francesca Schembri	“The Age of Female Computers”
2016	1st	Sarah Osmulski	“The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: MIT’s $100 Million Gamble”

Obermayer Prize for Writing on the History of Innovation (Graduate Students)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2023	1st	Christopher Benton	“Beyond Bow Ties & Bean Pies”
2022	Honorable Mention	Pavan Inguva	“Innovative Publication Modalities Improve Research and Teaching”
2021	1st	Michelle Spektor	“Quantifying the ‘National Physique’: Deterioration, Degeneracy, and the British National Anthropomet”
2020	Honorable Mention	Ashley Belanger	“No Freedom to do Harm”
2019	1st	Kallirroi Retzepi	“You the Users”
2018	1st (tie)	Stratton Coffman	“Ground Games”
2018	1st (tie)	Agnes Cameron	“Disruptive Hardware in Southern China”
2017	1st	Meicen Sun	“Finding the Innovation Algorithm”
2017	Honorable Mention	Emily Watlington	“Orientalist Toilets”

Obermayer Prize for Writing for the Public

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Kartik Chandra	“Advent of AI”
2022	1st	Leah Campbell	“Climate Change Poses a Huge Threat to Railroads”
2021	1st	Robert Davis	“Owl Anatomy Could Help Engineers Make Aircraft More Stable in Windy Conditions”
2021	2nd	Jameson McBride	“Freeing the Snow: Climate Adaptation, Inequality, and the Future of Skiing”
2019	1st	Boer Fu	“The History of the Underground”
2019	Honorable Mention	Agnes Cameron	“Hiding in Plain Sight”
2018	1st	Agnes Cameron	“Inventing Nothing”
2018	Honorable Mention	Laura Castañón	“Building a Charge”
2017	1st	Justin Chen	“An Elegant Mind”
2017	Honorable Mention	Aaron Dy	“Synthetic Biology to Help Colonize Mars”

Rebecca Blevins Faery Prize for Undergraduate Autobiographical Essay

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Kate Pearce	Still Life with Vine Tomatoes and Rosary Beads
2024	2nd	Katelyn Howard	Celeste in the Woods
2023	1st	Mercy Oladipo	“Ours”
2023	2nd	Selena Liu	“Excision”
2022	1st	Seo Yeong Kwag	“Home”
2022	2nd	Vanessa Deering	“Team”
2021	1st	Nailah Smith	“If America Was a House”
2021	2nd	Rona Wang	“The Theorem of Us”
2020	1st	Carl Joshua Quines	“Infinity”
2020	2nd	Steven Truong	“Life is Divisible by Two”
2019	1st	Chloe Yang	“Battle Hymn of a Tiger Child”
2019	2nd	Rona Wang	“The Moon and Her Lady”

Robert A. Boit Prize (Essay)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Cindy Xie	Triggers
2024	2nd	Fiona Lu	Mother Tongue
2024	3rd	Selena Liu	The Palimpsest Sensation
2024	4th	Amber Velez	The Winding Road
2023	1st	Amber Velez	“Tell Me How It Hurts”
2023	2nd	Amber Liu	“To Be Asian-American”
2023	3rd	Julia Hoeffner	“A Tale of Two American Dreams”
2023	4th	Cindy Xie	“To Koch or To UnKoch: Towards a Science-Politics Praxis for Integrated Cancer Research”
2022	1st	Sam Ingersoll	“A heaping pile of thoughts about minds, viruses, and religions”
2022	2nd	Alicia Guo	“What is art but a hope and a question?”
2022	3rd	Aviva Intveld	“A Motivated Analysis of Sassanian and Ghassanid Influences on the Umayyad Desert Castles”
2022	4th	Amber Velez	“Milestones”
2021	1st	Quinn Brodsky	“Nelson Rolls”
2021	2nd	Laura Schmidt-Hong	“Halves”
2021	3rd	Emily Levenson	“Seeing What is Before Us”
2020	1st	Ivy Li	“The Hypocrisy of Temperance in the Bower of Bliss”
2020	2nd	Victoria Dzieciol	“Lessons from History”
2020	Honorable Mention	Aviva Intveld	“An Anecdotal Approach to Perspectives on the Middle East”
2019	1st	Gabriella Zak	“More Than a Pretty Picture”
2019	2nd	Gailin Pease	“Following Spiders”
2019	3rd	Lily Jordan	“Problem Exists between Chair and Keyboard”
2018	1st	Talya Klinger	“I Shall Not Wholly Die”
2018	2nd (tie)	Selin Selman	“Spots”
2018	2nd (tie)	Maisha Prome	“Memorizing a Language”
2017	1st	Rona Wang	“Ai, [name]”
2017	Honorable Mention	Hairuo Guo	“Sets, Settings, and States”
2016	1st	Vivian Tran	“homeofasister”
2015	1st	Grace Assaye	“As I Colored Myself In”
2015	Honorable Mention	Nevin Daniel	“India Story”
2015	Honorable Mention	David Hesslink	“Wiffle Ballers”
2014	1st	Shannon Kao	“Care and Feeding of”
2014	2nd	Remi Mir
2014	Honorable Mention	Colleen Gabel	“The Complexity of Perception”
2014	Honorable Mention	Paul Yuan
2013	1st	Lydia Krasilnikova
2013	2nd (tie)	Deborah Chen
2013	2nd (tie)	Colleen Gabel
2013	Honorable Mention	Katy Gero
2012	1st (tie)	Shawn Tsosie	“The Rest Is Silence”
2012	1st (tie)	Max Dunitz	“An Ad Man Dreams of Turing Machines: Finding and Selling Love in the Computer Age”
2012	2nd	Caitlin Lownes	“Hidden in Plain Sight”
2012	3rd	Tom Roberts	“2 B or Not 2 B”
2012	Honorable Mention	Dawna Bagherian	“Stardust A Letter to a Friend”
2012	Honorable Mention	Emma Gargus	“An Ode to Orange”
2011	1st	Shannon Moran	“Freshman Year, On the Rocks”
2011	2nd	Mary Jue Xu	“Chinese Disguise”
2011	3rd (tie)	Jia Zhu	“I Am Woman”
2011	3rd (tie)	Shawn Tsosie	Untitled
2011	Honorable Mention	Ingwon Chae	“Reporter at Large: Waiting For”
2010	1st	Abdul Munir	“Burdens”
2010	2nd	Seohyung Kim	“Where Truth Lies”
2010	3rd (tie)	Joan Chen	“Poems”
2010	3rd (tie)	Emma Rosen	“Passageways”
2010	Honorable Mention	Shannon Moran	“Just American”
2009	1st	Marguerite Siboni	“Virginity Revisited”
2009	2nd (tie)	Kristin Uhmeyer	“Playing with Matches”
2009	2nd (tie)	Cristen Blair Chinea	“In Loisaida”
2008	1st	Katie Sievert	“Rhythms of Return”
2008	2nd	Nina Mann	“On Huahogs, Waterfire, and Coffeemilk: What’s Big in a Little State”
2008	3rd	Elizabeth Finn	“Almost Famous”
2008	Honorable Mention	Tony Valderrama	“Nonin”
2007	1st (tie)	Farah Ghniem	“Reflections on Home”
2007	1st (tie)	Anna Wexler	“Lights Out, New York”
2007	2nd	Matthew Petersen	“About Time”
2007	3rd	Kaitlin Kamrowski	“On How Love Floats Us and Sinks Us, Propels Us Forward and Holds Us Back”
2007	Honorable Mention	Joel Yuen	“The Departures of Ramón”
2006	1st	Jordan Wirfs-Brock	“The Oldest Potato”
2006	2nd	Huawei Dong	“Chinglish”
2006	3rd	Ingrid Lawhorn	“Thrift”
2006	Honorable Mention	Jiarong (Jessie) Wang	“Of Encounters: Musings inspired by the style of Sir Francis Bacon”
2005	1st	Anna D. Bergren	“Throwing Punches and Cutting Seals: Saving Boston’s CITGO Sign”
2005	2nd (tie)	Matthew R. Burns	“Grace”
2005	2nd (tie)	Jessica Young	“Seeing the Big Picture”
2005	3rd (tie)	Victoria Y. Fan	“Care and Hope for the Dying”
2005	3rd (tie)	Theresa Shyr	“Wearing the Pants”
2004	1st	Anna Wexler
2004	2nd	Emily Levesque
2004	3rd	Theresa Shyr
2004	Honorable Mention	Sarah A. Laszlo
2003	1st	Deborah Pan	“Grandma’s Story”
2003	2nd	Ruimin He	“Mosquito”
2003	3rd	Amy Fisher	“present absence”
2003	Honorable Mention	Michael Wongchaow	“Small Friends”
2002	1st	Jeffrey Dumas LeBlanc	“Move”
2002	2nd	Kevin R. Lang	“On Waking”
2002	3rd	Jose C. Rivera	“Where Are You Going To?”
2002	Honorable Mention	Jovonne J. Bickerstaff	“Daddy’s Girl”

Robert A. Boit Prize (Poetry)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	June Kayath	“Transmutations”
2024	2nd	Fiona Lu	“Lifelines”
2024	3rd	Gosha Geogdzhayev	“The Distance Left to Go”
2024	4th	Andrea Akwiwu	“a smoot away”
2023	1st	Felicia Xiao	“The Sound of All Human Knowledge”
2023	2nd	Kaivalya Hariharan	“Lensmaker”
2023	3rd (tie)	Sophie Van Pelt	“Waves”
2023	3rd (tie)	Katie Hall	“The Girl on a Bike”
2022	1st	Alicia Guo	“kitchen meditations”
2022	2nd	Quinn Brodsky	“let me out of this skin”
2022	3rd	Sagnik Anupam	“three untitled poems”
2021	1st	Sophia Diggs-Galligan	“A Book Slammed Shut”
2021	2nd	Sharon Lin	“Five Poems”
2021	3rd	Sophia Cohen	“Endings & Never Endings”
2021	Honorable Mention	Nailah Smith	“Love in a Glass of Water”
2021	Honorable Mention	Patricia Gao	“Handheld Ghost”
2020	1st	Merryn Daniel	“For Wanting”
2020	2nd	Rona Wang	“I Overuse the Ampersand”
2020	3rd	Wendy Trattner	“Flockless”
2020	Honorable Mention	Joshua Derrick	“Dreams from Yesterday”
2020	Honorable Mention	Sophia Diggs-Galligan	“Lenormand Sestinas/Maine Poems”
2019	1st	Sophia E Diggs-Galligan	“Sylvian Fissure”
2019	2nd (tie)	Gailin Pease	“Years Spent Wanting”
2019	2nd (tie)	Jullianna R Bracco	“Text Your Friends and Water Your Plants”
2019	Honorable Mention	Fatima Gunter-Rahman	“Life’s Small Questions”
2019	Honorable Mention	Katie O’Nell	“A Natural Body”
2018	1st (tie)	Sabrina Ibarra	“Limes”
2018	1st (tie)	Elise Bickford	“Being and Room”
2018	2nd	Allan (Vera) Ko	“cyborg histories i can’t escape, cyborg futures i can barely see”
2018	3rd	Annika Rollock	“Thoughts from Senior Year”
2018	Honorable Mention	Virginia Rosenberger	“Earth”
2017	1st	Gailin Pease	“Playing Cards”
2017	2nd	Divya Goel	“Hippocampus”
2017	3rd	Nicholas Matthews	“Distant Sunrise in Malaga” // “At the Loggia” // “Jazz”
2017	Honorable Mention	Deborah Plana	“Between Caracas and Cambridge”
2016	1st	Gailin Pease	“How We Speak Hear”
2016	2nd	Phoebe Cai	“Markets for Bullets”
2016	3rd	Christi Dawydiak	“Learn by Doing Sex Ed”
2016	Honorable Mention	Harini Suresh	“Parting Words”
2015	1st (tie)	Natasha Balwit	“Creation Myths”
2015	1st (tie)	Laura Zhang	“The Tale”
2015	2nd	Nicolas Brown	“Memoir”
2015	3rd (tie)	Deborah Plana	“Seeing is Feeling”
2015	3rd (tie)	Gailin Pease	“Lost and Found”
2015	Honorable Mention	Andrew Trattner	“iLAmb”
2015	Honorable Mention	Jacob Isenhart	“fractures”
2014	1st	Kevin Gildea	“It’s Beautiful Thorns Have Roses”
2014	2nd	Jocelyn Gonzalez	“I Do This, I Do That”
2014	3rd	Natasha Balwit	“Steller’s Jay Songbook”
2014	Honorable Mention	Lourdes Bobbio	“The Story of My Life”
2013	1st	Christopher J. Sarabalis
2013	2nd	Rachel Ellison
2013	3rd	Heather E. Acuff
2012	1st	Kathleen Geyer	“How We Grow”
2012	2nd (tie)	Irina Kholodenko	“Milk of Dogs”
2012	2nd (tie)	Emerson Boram Lee	“Five.5 Poems of Regret”
2012	3rd	Naren Tallapragada	“Morning in America”
2011	1st	Eli Williams	“Southern Ruminations”
2011	2nd	Anna Waldman-Brown	“Selected Poems”
2011	3rd	Joan Chen	“Landscapes within”
2011	Honorable Mention	Nikita Consu	“Flutters That Come and Tickle and Don’t Go”
2010	1st (tie)	Alexandra Corella	“A Portrait of Cambridge”
2010	1st (tie)	Seohyung Kim	“Geography’s Here”
2010	2nd	Catherine Huang	“Selected Poems”
2010	3rd (tie)	Kathleen Geyer	“The Female Butterfly”
2010	3rd (tie)	Eli Williams	“Atmospheres”
2009	1st	Sarah Campbell Proehl	“Fourteen Months”
2009	2nd	Liz Hanson	“Seven Days for Dan”
2009	3rd	Alexandra Corella	“A Day at the Beach”
2008	1st	Sarah Dupuis-Kornreich	“The Ghost: A Collection of Poems”
2008	2nd	Dan Levine	“Range”
2007	1st	Zachary Smith	“There Are Holes in Everything”
2007	2nd	Samantha Weiss	“Reflections”
2007	3rd	Nancy Hua	“Home and Away”
2007	Honorable Mention	Farah Ghniem	“First Things”
2006	1st	Zachary Smith	“College Kid: Walking or Standing Still”
2006	2nd	Darlene Ferranti	“Moments Gone By”
2006	3rd	Sam Felton	“My Friends”
2006	Honorable Mention	Patricia Martinez	“Hindsight”
2005	1st	Jessica Young	“Days Go By”
2005	2nd	Nadezhda Belova	“Unrelated”
2005	3rd	Matthew Burns	“Never Barren”
2004	1st	Vladimir Fleurima
2003	1st	Daria Lymar	“Staying the Night”
2003	2nd	Sarah Shin	“Identity”
2003	3rd	Anna Kuperstein	“In Search Of”
2002	1st	Amanda Bligh	“Poison Ivy”, Untitled, “Dating Services in Arlington”
2002	2nd	Aaron Parness	“Chronicles of Maturity’s Cost”
2002	3rd	Allison Lewis	“Sizing It Up”
2002	Honorable Mention	Hanyin Lin	“Within These Restrictions”

Robert A. Boit Prize (Short Story)

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Vanessa Vidic	“Language”
2024	2nd	Cindy Xie	“Moongazing”
2024	3rd	Susan Hong	“If a Tree Falls in a Forest”
2024	4th	Fiona Lu	“Cored”
2023	1st	Siyi Lin	“Vera”
2023	2nd	Cindy Xie	“Paper Lives”
2023	3rd	Layal Barakat	“Hide and Seek”
2023	4th	Jack King	“Sea Shepherd”
2022	1st	Britney Ting	“Ticket to Freedom”
2022	2nd	Leah Yost	“The Death of a Coward”
2022	3rd	Amber Liu	“Sanctuary”
2022	4th	Laura Rosado	“A Little Bit”
2021	1st	Rona Wang	“Glass Foxkit”
2021	2nd	Maisha Prome	“Unmatched”
2021	3rd	Tiffany Huang	“Monobloc”
2021	Honorable Mention	Sharon Lin	“The Dollar Store”
2020	1st	Linyue Fan	“The Wolf”
2020	2nd	Hanna Kherzai	“Passersby”
2020	3rd	Vivian Song	“Water Marks”
2020	Honorable Mention	Rona Wang	“Bird’s Nest”
2019	1st	Chloe Yang	“The Flavor Engineers”
2019	2nd	Ivy Li	“The Veteran’ Blue Flowers”
2019	3rd	Hannah Ledford	“Deviled Eggs”
2019	Honorable Mention	Gailin Pease	“Tidal Restoration”
2018	1st	Hannah Michaye Ledford	“Visiting Beaumont”
2018	2nd	Phoebe Cai	“A Marriage”
2018	3rd	Ivy Li	“Maimed Geese Fly Too”
2018	Honorable Mention	Synthia Odu	“Virulent”
2017	1st	Rona Wang	“The Art of Acceptance”
2017	2nd	Kishore Patra	“The Green Chillies”
2017	3rd	Gailin Pease	“She Thought She Could Outrun Anything”
2016	1st	Christian Infante	“The Faults They Had”
2016	2nd	Lydia Krasilnikova	“Soft Blue Towels, Soft White Sands”
2016	3rd	Gailin Pease	“When I Know Her”
2016	Honorable Mention	Arman Rahman	“For Internal Use Only”
2015	1st	Vincent Anioke	“The Same Old Thing”
2015	2nd	Ishwarya Ananthabhotla	“Naanama”
2015	3rd	Paelle Powell	“Super B”
2015	Honorable Mention	Hannah “Hailan” Pang	“Story Dates”
2014	1st	Zachary Wener-Fligner	“Vince Fields, M.P.S.”
2014	2nd	Laura Zhang
2014	3rd	Christopher Sarabalis	“Lorenz”
2013	1st	Zach Wener-Fligner
2013	2nd	Steven Guitron
2013	3rd	Dana Reback
2012	1st (tie)	Madeline Clark	“Red Lacy Panties
2012	1st (tie)	Aimee Harrison	“Red Hair and Wiry Arms”
2012	2nd	Virginia Nicholson	“Skin Dyed Black”
2012	3rd	Molly Kozminsky	“Cartography”
2011	1st	Bethany D. Patten	“On”
2011	2nd	Grant Kadokura	“The Garden”
2011	3rd	Virginia Nicholson	“Kamikaze Fireflies”
2011	Honorable Mention	Carlo Mannino	“Flash”
2010	1st	Seohyung Kim	“Bad Behavior”
2010	2nd	Catherine Huang	“Green Eyes”
2010	3rd	Abdul Munir	“Guantanamo”
2009	1st	Seohyung Kim	“Overdose”
2009	2nd	Anneke Schwob	“Lost Cause”
2009	3rd	Renee Reder	“Blue-Gray”
2008	1st	Anneke Schwob	“Danny O’Malley Is Dead”
2008	2nd	Samantha Weiss	“Simulated in Black and White”
2008	3rd	Molly Jabas	“The Tree Lot”
2008	Honorable Mention	Alison Berke	“The Cardinal”
2007	1st	Nadja Oertelt	“The Blue House”
2007	2nd	Joao Paulo Mattos Almeida	“Moment”
2007	3rd	Gillian Conahan	“Ghosts on the Web”
2007	Honorable Mention	Farah Ghniem	“Worlds Apart”
2006	1st	Nancy Hua	“Valley of Diamonds”
2006	2nd	Jean Choi	“Inside Orange”
2006	3rd	Anicham Kumarasamy	“Dorm Shopping with Amma”
2006	Honorable Mention	Jonathan Blum	“Work Shall Set You Free”
2005	1st	Jocelyn Rodal	“Clementine”
2005	2nd	Adora Asala	“An Experiment with the Female Anopheles Mosquito”
2005	3rd	Farah Ghniem	“Learning to Breathe Under Water”
2005	Honorable Mention	Anita Kris	“Dangerous Heights”
2003	1st	Michelle A. Naderman	“Outliving Liz”
2003	2nd	Arthur Musah	“ACCRA”
2003	3rd	Burhanuddin A. Baki	“Short Story About Fire”
2003	Honorable Mention	Amy Fisher	“pieces”
2002	1st	Jovonne J. Bickerstaff	“Missing Daddy”
2002	2nd	Osman M. Bakr	“The Gate”
2002	3rd	Nathaniel K. Choge	“Bread”
2002	Honorable Mention	Chris Kelly	“Substitute Teacher”
2002	Honorable Mention	Rachel Dillon	“art school”

S. Klein Prize for Scientific Writing

Year	Prize	Place	Title
2024	1st	Sarah Hopkins	“Collateral Consequences: An Addiction Researcher Confronts America’s Opioid Crisis”
2024	2nd	Cindy Xie	“Cabo Seca’: Environmental Change and Human Health in Santiago Island”
2022	1st	Leah Campbell	“‘That‘s Not How It Needs to Be’ – New Orleans Residents Take on Street Flooding and Lead the Green Infrastructure Revolution”
2022	2nd	Aviva Intveld	“Cleaning Painted Surfaces: A Review of the Physiochemical Effects of Organic Solvents on Varnished Oil Paintings”
2021	1st	Elizabeth (Lizzie) Yarina	“Watershed Wars and Porosity politics: Uneven Geographies of Climate Risk”
2021	2nd	Rodrigo Ochigame	“Logic in a Contradictory World”
2020	1st (tie)	Marion Boulicault	“Gender and the measurement of fertility: A Case Study in Critical Metrology”
2020	1st (tie)	Leah Yost	“The Spanish Lady’s Underwear”
2019	1st	Leah Yost	“The Problem with Pain”
2019	2nd	Andrea K. Beck	“Mentor Motivations”
2018	1st	Frankie Schembri	“Students on the Cutting Edge”
2017	1st	Kate Telma	“A Diagnosing Challenge”
2017	2nd	Giorgia Guglielmi	“Media of Mass Destruction”
2014	1st	Ashley Smith
2014	2nd	Kara Manke	“My Thymus, My Self”
2013	1st	Hannah Chen
2013	2nd	Lydia Krasilnikova
2012	1st	David Garcia	“Bacteria Did It First”
2012	2nd (tie)	Patricia Stockwell	“Opening a Can of Worms”
2012	2nd (tie)	Fangfei Shen	“The Ocean’s Unpopular Crowd”
2011	1st	Anna Waldman-Brown	“One in a Trillion: Dark Matter and the Wild West of Particle Physics”
2011	2nd (tie)	Gillian Conahan	“Folding to Formula”
2011	2nd (tie)	Allison MacLachlan	“The Color of Normal”
2010	1st	Amanda Rose Martinez	“Jam Session in the Brain”
2010	2nd (tie)	Joshua Feblowitz	“Computer, MD: How Clinical Decision Support Is Changing the World of Medicine”
2010	2nd (tie)	Fangfei Shen	“The Science of Birthday Wishes”
2009	1st	Genevieve Wanucha	“The Clearest Mirror: The Science of Laughing and Crying”
2009	2nd	Yuri Hanada	“Turning Off the Metastatic Switch”
2008	1st	Lissa Harris	“Heredity Blues”
2008	2nd	Allyson T. Collins	“Insight from Outcasts”

S. Klein Prize for Technical Writing

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Jayashabari Shankar	“Does Snow Cover Affect the Biodiversity of Various Grasses in Utah’s Wasatch Front?”
2023	1st	Emelie Eldracher	“AI-Row: A Real-Time Mobile ML Analytics Application for Para and Non-Para Rowers”
2022	1st	Vainavi Mukkamala	“Small Molecule Binders to TDP43 RNA-Recognition Motifs Were Discovered Through Small Molecule Microarrays”
2022	2nd (tie)	Ananya Gurumurthy	“The Rapid Rise of Cryptocurrency”
2022	2nd (tie)	Mojolaoluwa Oke	“The Effects of Jump Style and Rope Weight on Skipping Speed”
2021	1st	Seung Hyeon Shim	“Amino Acid Substitutions”
2020	1st	Wendy Trattner	“Sleep Sound Analysis for Masking City Traffic Noise”
2020	2nd	Steven Truong	“Genetic-Based Risk Assessment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Vietnam”
2019	1st (tie)	Brigid Bane	“Dopaminergic projections from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to the posterior basolateral amygdala (pBLA) help extinguish fear memories”
2019	1st (tie)	Kimberly Feng	“Cellular Modulation of Allograft Injury in a Model of Lung Transplant”
2018	1st	Kristina E Lopez	“Role of Tissue Architecture in Chromosome Segregation”
2017	1st	Yasuko Mano	“Role of Autophagy in PDAC”
2017	2nd	Camilo Espinosa	“Creating an Immune Tolerance Model”
2016	1st	Sarah Osmulski	“A Comprehensive Analysis of Essential and Conditionally Essential Genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using Transposon Insertion Sequencing”
2016	2nd	Molly McNamara	“A Role for BMI1 in Metastatic Melanoma Resistance to BRAF Inhibition”
2016	Honorable Mention	Kara Presbrey	“Using Olfaction to Prevent Obesity”
2015	1st	Adelaide Tovar	“Developing an Improved Immunotherapy for Late–Stage Cancers by Engineering Immunomodulation”
2015	2nd	Marsha Wibowo	“CDX2 is not required for down-regulation of pluripotency genes in mouse fetal ovarian germ cells”
2014	1st (tie)	Eun Yong Choi
2014	1st (tie)	Tom Roberts
2014	2nd	Andrea Kriz
2013	1st	Victoria Lu
2013	2nd (tie)	Thai Pham
2013	2nd (tie)	Divya Pillai
2012	1st	Laura McCulloch	“Impact of I142 on Fidelity and polymerization activity in P. Furiosus DNA Polymerase”
2012	2nd (tie)	Eileen Yang and Monica Oliver	“The Influence of Classroom Dynamics on MIT Student Participation”
2012	2nd (tie)	Kenneth Lin	“YPEL4: Highly Conserved Gene Required for Terminal Red Blood Cell Development”
2011	1st	Kamena Kostova	“High throughput screen for small molecules that mimic p53 restoration”
2011	2nd (tie)	Daniel Levine	“Using Fluorescent Quantum Dots to Illuminate Interactions at the Molecular and Cellular Level”
2011	2nd (tie)	Eric Scarborough	“Identification of novel mutations affecting mitomycin C tolerance in Caulobacter crescentus”
2010	1st (tie)	Amelia Chang	“Unbiased discovery of genes relevant for breast cancer metastasis”
2010	1st (tie)	Harrison F. O’Hanley	“Performance of a Stove Mounted Thermoelectric Generator”
2010	2nd	Jihye Kim	“A new biochemical pathway for synaptic plasticity: an in vivo morphological study”
2009	2nd (tie)	Tony Hyun Kim	“An Iterative Technique for Solving the N-electron Hamiltonian: The Hartree-Fork Method”
2009	2nd (tie)	Annick Aubin Pouliot	“Polymerization Activity and Fidelity of H137C Pfu DNA Polymerase”
2008	1st	C. Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree	“Gaydar: Facebook Friendships Expose Sexual Orientation”
2008	2nd	Shuo Han	“A Game of Switches: Epigenetic Regulation of Variegating Cell Wall Genes”
2007	1st	Karen Lingyun Chu	“Rhyming in Mandarin Chinese: A Study Based on Popular Song Lyrics”
2007	2nd	Raj Singh	“On the Optimal Design of Human Communication”
2007	Honorable Mention	William Buttinger	“Verilog Implementation of a Digital Traffic-Light Controller with User-Modifiable Timing Parameters”
2006	1st (tie)	Vijay Shilpiekandula	“Fabrication and Characterization of Micron-sized Silicon Nitride Beams”
2006	1st (tie)	Sira Sriswasdi	“An Improved Lower Bound for Moser’s Worm Problem”
2006	2nd	Sarah Nelson	“Retinoic acid receptor binds putative retinoic acid response elements in mouse and human Stra8”
2005	1st	Ying (Jean) Zheng	“Optimizing Proximity Heating Parameters of Silicon Wafers”
2005	2nd	Shauna Mei and Craig Rothman	“Diffusivity as a Function of pH for an Uncharged Solute”
2005	Honorable Mention	Stephen Lee	“RHG expression and interaction with DIAP 1 in apopotosis of drosophilia S2 cells”
2003	1st	Sameer Shah	“Biosociality & Usenet: A Dialogue of Cyberculture”
2003	2nd	Derrick Carpenter	“Studies on the Causes of Homosexuality and Their Influences on Gay and Lesbian Law”
2003	Honorable Mention	Alexis Dieter	“Mechanisms of Learning and Memory: Involvement of the Primary and Supplemental Motor Cortexes, the Cerebellum and REM Sleep in Motor Learning”
2002	1st	Danielle Guez	“Cause of Death of Chrlinergic Neurons in Alzheimer’s Disease”

Vera List Prize for Writing on the Visual Arts

Year	Place	Name	Title
2024	1st	Sophia Chen	“Black Cobwebs”
2024	2nd	Kartik Chandra	“A Strange Thing Happens when You Live With a Work of Art”
2023	1st	Kartik Chandra	“The Burghers’ Quiet Truth – An AI Researcher Reacts to AI Art”
2023	2nd	Jerry Han	“A (Non-Fungible) Token of My Appreciation”
2022	1st	Nina Wexelblatt	“The Vertical Museum: Standard Oil at MoMA”
2022	2nd	Brandon O. Scott	“Drawn Down”
2021	1st	Sachin Bhagchandani	“Resurrecting Memory: Museums, Affect, Emotions”
2021	2nd	Sharon Lin	“Play Time”
2020	1st	Sachin Bhagchandani	“Back to the Future”
2020	2nd	Sharon Lin	“Glitch From Malfunction to Modern Art”
2019	1st	Zhexi Zhang	“Lu Yang, Chaos and Cosmos”
2019	2nd	Jocelyn Shen	“Between Barbed Wire: A Visual Analysis of TIME’s Welcome to America”
2018	1st	Emily Watlington	“‘A woman shouldn’t waste her talent on such a harsh game’: Female Agency in Ericka Beckman’s Cinderella and Hiatus”
2018	2nd	Heather Nelson	“Standing Below the Wall: Graffiti as Political Activism”
2017	1st	Emily Watlington	“Sophie Calle”
2017	2nd	Shane Reiner-Roth	“You Don’t Need a Door on a Formica Kitchen”
2016	1st, U*	M. Abrams	“The Story of My Blindness”
2016	2nd, U	Sam Fomon	“bars of color within squares”
2016	1st, G	Jackson Davidow	“La vie en rose: Love in Rahard Fung’s Sea in the Blood”
2016	2nd, G	Duygu Demir	“The Eye, The Shooter and the Viewer: Representation, Reception and Deception in Rabih Mroue’s The Fall of Hair”
2015	1st, U	M. Abrams and Caitlin Mehl	“Eraser”
2015	2nd, U	Katherine Weishaar	“Entrance to the Village of Vetheuil in Winter: A Comparative Study”
2015	1st, G	Kelly Presutti	“Producing Eastern Europe: The Legacy of the Soros Centers in the Work of Attila Csorgo”
2014	1st, U	Natasha Balwit	“Levitated Mass”
2014	2nd, U	Theresa Santiano-McHatton
2014	1st, G	Nisa Ari
2014	2nd, G	Desi Gonzalez	“‘Museum without Walls’: PBS’s Art:21 in the Contemporary Art Landscape”
2013	1st	Katy Gero
2013	2nd	Kapaya Katongo
2010	1st	Emma Rosen	“Strength, Joy, and Seduction: An Analysis of Leni Riefenstahl’s Treatment of Contemporary Issues in Triumph of the Will; and a Comparison between Triumph of the Will and Olympia”
2010	2nd	Samuel Kronick	“On the Aesthetics of Technology and Engineering in Collaborative Conceptual Practice”
2009	1st	Seohyung Kim	“Imagining a Modern Community in Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading The People’”
2009	2nd	George Hansel	“Nondeterminism and Self-Reference: a Fundamental Construct of Modernism”
2008	1st	Eric Schmiedl	“The Use of Narrative in Advertising Photography”
2008	2nd	Mihai Duduta	“Frank Ghery, Starchitect or Master of Spin?”
2003	1st	John Wallach	“Artistic Vision as the Key to Kafka’s The Trial And Woolf’s To The Lighthouse”
2003	2nd	Evan Pruitt	“Transcending Time”
2002	1st	Tina Lin	“Chiaroscuro Effects”